001of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible withy andice for all thank you would you all please make sure that your cell phones are either turned off or on silent um Mr if you want to get us started perfect uh I think a great way to kick off tonight's uh board meeting would be to introduce Miss White and uh here to to kind of celebrate music in our schools month Miss White has brought in with her some members of our select choir so I will turn it over to Mrs White uh to introduce them and they will do a performance for us so so I was given a script to read okay I'll introduce Mr Gaff to do a script I was given my marching orders out there so here's
002uh sorry please join and celebrating music in our school month by attending the district concert on Thursday March 20 at 7:00 p.m. in our High School auditorium you will hear the growth of the music program with students in grades 4 through 12 performing in their respective ensembles that join us in singing The Final piece sincerely the music department tell you thank you so this is the select chus singing the alma Mo so this has been around for a long time but we recently just found this in the classroom we brought it to the um celebration last year but we thought you'd like to hear it so we're going to move over hereos on the left Bas in the middle and then on yep move y slide down a little bit so there's more room [Music]
003y Lo we sing in the heart of every student raes r redek centr stand and cheer her May her F while we live will Cher days gone by so select is going to come around and they're going to hand you one of these flips just inviting you to our district concert thank you for having us uh our our select choir members I have a token of appreciation for coming in tonight no no leaving some of you this is a repeat offense so this is a thing come on up and please accept a token of appreciation for presenting for us tonight we look forward to our district concert thank you good job thank you thank you guys for coming thank you we're going to skip over questions for this like um I I we did a
004little uh combination here uh normally at the conclusion of each athletic season Mr welcher provides um an update tonight will be part one of an athletic update uh due to some circumstances but uh we had some outstanding uh individual accolades through some of our team members uh through some of our winter sports teams this year and I thought it uh would be appropriate to bring them forward tonight to recognize those individuals um in part one of our athletic recognition for this winter so uh Mr welcher yeah uh thank you everybody for your time uh I guess what i' first like to say I don't know if you guys have kids in school or athletes these two started practice on November 18th for this season so we're getting on uh three and a half months of
005Athletics school holidays vacations family obligations so these kids and um their coaches uh should really be commended for the amount of time and effort they put into these Seasons because the winter season if again if you're a sports parent during winter it's forever um so um I appreciate everybody's hard work uh first to my left here is high jumer Maya defurio um she's going to States this weekend Mr Briggs is going to give a quick recap of her season so I've been coaching since middle of August and stop I'll have a break after this weekend but 20 plus years of teaching this is my first board meeting and I'm pretty excited and it's about this young lady so this is a great touch the Athletics to get us here to represent our our kids and
006uh my deero is an awesome young lady uh she came out for track a few years ago and she hasn't turned back and uh this isn't her first rodeo our rewind back she went outdoor track state championships last year for high jump and that was just the beginning as a freshman which is unheard of um it's a it's a very technical event and then she came back even stronger this season and uh put on a great show the first or second meet way back in you know December and uh hit the qualifying standard of 5' 3 in mind you running back and forth to run a relay it was kind of chaotic and she hit that standard and it was a pretty exciting moment but then of course she uh she had a little injury
007that kind of snuck up on her that kind of had a little setback but a true athlete comes forth and uh and uh gets better and does what they need to do to improve and she did just that she came back stronger than ever and went to State qualifiers uh this past weekend and uh jumped against all of the division one which are the big city schools the fair ports you know the Monroe County and the small school districts that's how indoor works you are the best of the best when you go to state qualifiers and she is one of the best of the best in section five she went on her third attempt for the uh for 53 third attemp second attempt she went up she plowed right into the bar and we're like
008dude night's over we didn't know what was going to happen but we we settled down she took a deep breath and I'm telling you she went up her third attempt she cleared that bar and was her best jump of her entire career it was just wonderful and uh we jumped off that bench and went wild because we knew she sealed the deal and punched her ticket and she will be going to Staten Island this weekend to represent section five and of course red Creek at the State uh championships so we're excited so second athlete up here is Rose Southwick with her coach Ben poel and Ben will just give a a recap of the great things Rose did this season so I unfortun I had to write some stuff down because there's specific things you
009want have to talk about so last year Rose went 1 in 11 that is a win percentage of 8% this year Rose went 24 and seven she had a win percentage of 77.4% okay she won the Alexander imitational she won the clash of the creek she won the Red Jacket imitational she's a finger leg League champion she's a section five champion and she went undefeated in section five so some huge accolades on that part um this year uh sorry last year in Section 5 there was only 115 girls this year there were 200 girls in section five in the state of New York last year there was 1,343 girls this year there was 2,18 girls so this is this is a sport that is on the rise and it's rapidly growing um I do want
010to commend her I I told her when she first started wrestling I said eventually you will cry in the sport she is like no I'm not like when she loses her match and she literally gets up smiling and she walks over to you I'm like okay she's going to prove me wrong I know it well one day she got hurt in practice and tears came out of her eyes she goes but I haven't cried and I'm like okay well so when she was done at the end of the year she held it together when she came off the state floor she walked up the stairs and I said your parents are coming she stopped she turned around she waited for them to come over her dad embraced her and wouldn't let her go and that's
011when she finally relaxed so it took all the way till that point for her to relax and realize that okay I can handle this and then the next thing was is she was talking to my son and she said I made it this year next year I'm placing so she's already got goals that she's working towards for next year couple clinics tournaments that we already have planned so this is right we had one of our basketball players and his coach are both unfortunately sick so they wer un aable to be here on they're going to be at the next boort meeting with a recap of a tour in the Rd McDonald allar game which Joseph Decker was selected for so in that as well Joseph Decker was selected as the Wayne County player of the
012year I believe this is only the second time that's been uh a boys basketball players been selected that red Creek uh so we're looking forward to when Joey's feeling better to see him at the next meeting with his uh recap of his Ronald McDonald Allstar experience so let's here for Joe and thank you all if you don't mind I have two I have two questions for the kids right yes of course for the kids um Maya how do you prepare mentally before your job what do you think usually with some words from him some from my friend mie it kind of takes you just have to like I just have to kind of go off by myself and just focus myself first okay and how tall are you 54 jump 53 pretty impressive all right
013Rose what's the most valuable lesson you've learned from wrestling um I'd say stepping out of your comfort zone because last year I didn't really know anyone in the room I just kind of did my own thing and then this year it's kind of like we've all come together as a family I'd say and then like I talk to people that I never thought and have a conversation with do you have a favorite move um right I have a Mya question too were you just waiting for your third try just like keep everyone else on pants and needles and you just knew you had it [Laughter] so thank you guys so much good luck Maya um if you want to come up I think we have coins yeah I have coins for all four congratulations take
014one of these coins congratulations needed to write that down I congratulations congratulations all right so we're going to move on um I don't know if this is on purpose to you Danielle or not but we always put really good stuff that's not related in front of you I love it because it waks the room up right back into the you know thank you guys for coming thank you thank you it's definitely less exciting than hearing about all the great things kids too um so thank you for having me we talked a little bit about the budget last month um this is kind of a busy season for us so a lot of stuff has happened since then and I wanted to kind of start talking about the things that folks are going to see get
015nailed home for them so last year we had a lot of propositions we had our capital reserve and a whole bunch of other stuff this year shorter so we always have the budget for voters to uh put cast their vote on we typically have the purchase of buses we'll have that as well um and then our libraries switch off pretty much every other year um to determine if they will raise their Levy or not um they don't technically have to provide that to us quite so early in this season so I have that labeled here just as a potentially for right now so that's what folks will see that's what we're voting on this season um so of course our budget is a reflection of what we're investing in in our schools so I wanted
016to talk a little bit about some of the things that we're working towards for next year so we have currently in the 24 25 school year 25 credit bearing options for students so they can earn college credit while they're here in high school um next year we're looking at potentially having 10 brand new options so going from 25 to to 35 in one year that's a great way to expand um you know some options for our kids so that they can go to college already ahead of that game um and hopefully save some money as well we're also looking at and Mrs vur spoke about this during her presentation adding a special education K2 classroom um this would allow us to keep some of our kids here and keep them with their recre community and
017have them be able to experience all the great things we do here so that is one of the other options uh we're working towards um this year we also had the career center um which they do have their Career Fair coming up um they've been able to make some great connections between our kids and some opportunities that are out in our communities and help kind of get them on the path towards being able to walk out of Greg Creek High School ready to go um so continuing that making sure we can work on those Community collaborations and connect our kids with what's out there in our area area and then as well the continuation of the elementary summer school program so last year during budget season we talked a lot about all these great things
018we did with the co grants and how the co grants were expiring those ran through this summer so we were able to use those Co grants for this year's summer school next year's summer school um will be funded using 21st century funds so we were able to kind of continue that programming for our students um we had a lot of great feedback from the community that it was helpful and you know was good for the kids to be able to still have those connections throughout the summer period so those are some of the things you know when we talk about these numbers these are some of the items that are behind the numbers you're seeing what are we paying for um you know it's things like this as far as academic priorities last year we
019had the new Ela and math curriculum um you know that's a multi-year process so going into 2526 our efforts will still be to continue implementing that curriculum with Fidelity making sure teachers are comfortable with it um and improving as much as we can with that as well as aligning our reading and math interventions to that curriculum um so that we're you know not duplicating efforts and it can have the most impact on our kids um I won't go through all of these but just keep in mind you know behind all these numbers and figures you're going to see we're doing a lot of great work with the kids a lot of great work with our staff to make sure that they leaving red Creek prepared um and these are some of the efforts that go
020into that work so one of the things that's happened since we last spoke uh was our tax cap is due um and I'm going to give my annual disclaimer that a lot of times people refer to this as a 2% cap um it doesn't typically work out to a flat 2% there's a lot of factors that go into it um but what the cap is is if we um Levy funds at or below that number we need 50% of Voters to say yes to pass our budget if we exceed this number we need a super majority to be able to get there um so those are kind of when we're talking about the tax cap those are the implications it has for our vote process so this year um our calculation came out to an
021allowable increase of 3.6% that's about just under $185,000 um you know again why is it over 2% there are some variables that go into that um you know and I did pull this 10-year history here you can see it kind of jumps around so I just want to make it clear that you know when you hear 2% cap on the street um you know but we refer to that you know sort of colloquially it's a little bit more complicated the main thing here is that 3.6% for us is what we call tax cap compliant um um so using that 3.6% if we were to go up to our allowable Levy amount that would bring us to about five just under 5.3 million our Levy this year was just about $5.1 million so that's your $185,000
022and it is always a good fiscal practice for a school district to Levy the amount that is allowable um partly because this formula that runs runs based on your prior your Levy so if you don't go all the way up you're kind of leaving that money on the table years forward um so we did also last time talk about our projected revenues not much in this has changed as a reminder the um Governor's budget is a proposal the legislative budget um typically comes out in April so we're still a little bit in a waiting period here um I did want to talk about some of the big numbers and changes up here so we've got our 3.6 that at just about $185,000 um you'll see this decrease in the state aid that's that building Aid
023that we talked about last time there's some Revenue dropping off but once we get talking about the expenses you'll see those expenses drop off as well and then last year last year in 2425 we had a correction uh to a capital project to help close it out that's that 239 um so you're you know this 58% decrease it sounds like a lot lot it's really just because the last time we used it it was for a one time specific correction so overall right now our revenues are projected at 24.9 and you may be you know looking at these numbers going wait a minute 2425 is 25.1 um so we are looking at an overall decrease in our revenues overall decrease in our budget um not typically what we like to see um you know some
024of this is coming from changes in the foundation Aid formula some of it is coming from changes in our district um you know but just keep in mind that this overall number typically you see budgets go up year to year this year we're looking at going down a little bit all right so I've split this into the portions that voters will see on the budget newsletter that we sent home um just to kind of keep it consistent for us so when when we look at these I'm going to talk about some of the big numbers we have for um programs for students with disabilities a few more folks who are placed in out of District placements um one of those placements can be up to $100,000 um so that's a lot of variability in these
025numbers um you know as I said we are kind of working towards building that Continuum in districts so that we can have those kids stay here with us um but right now we have a few kids who need what we can't provide right now um you'll also notice I want to talk about CTE so a 22% increase in cost we also had between 2425 and 2526 over 20% increase in participation from our kids um one thing to keep in mind about this number is it's based on prior year enrollment so 23 24 to 2425 we had 20% more kids participate in the CT program um and then some of these These are mostly breakages breakages and small adjustments here um but this health insurance number this employee benefits number is huge um our Consortium that
026we participate in with many other districts in Wayne County um Monroe County they have projected about a 15% increase in health insurance along so and benefits is one of the biggest costs we have as a district where're people business so two biggest expenses are typically salaries and benefits um so you can see here it's going up quite a bit uh with an overall $1 million increase to our instructional side of our budget um so these you know what are the drivers here special ed tuition our CTE costs because we have more kids participating and those insurance rates are really what's pushing it excuse me so our capital budget um this is you know mostly our on M folks a couple other items in there that are nonp Personnel related so that's gone up onm has
027gone up we's say about $360,000 19% that's really high part of the reason it's really high most of the reason it's being driven that way is not Personnel related it's our utility costs are projected to increase between 30 and 40% next year um and this is only projected to continue or increase as we get pushed towards that electrification so as we move towards that our you know natural gas costs our electricity costs they're increasing pretty rapidly um so that's the primary driver in omm I just want to stress that's not Personnel it's not equipment it's well and truly our utility costs um some slight adjustments again you're going to see the employee benefits uh about 15% um and then you'll see this debt service number so you know we talked about on the revenue side
028our building Aid is falling off on The Debt Service expense side we're seeing those decrease as well you'll see this number come back up as we take out some debt for the capital project get some Aid going on that um these are Big Numbers these are bonds so when we talk about a $32 million Capital project at some point we have to pay all that money back that we we take out um you know and that's what's driving this number so once those bonds get sold it's a set schedule um and you shouldn't have quite this much fluctuation this is really because we have kind of a gap between a set of bonds and then the transfer to Capital funds oh I'm sorry I misspoke earlier um so this transfer to Capital funds you know
029again we talked about the 239 on the revenue side this year we had 239 to correct that Capital project and $100,000 for our Capital Outlet so the reason you're seeing a decrease by$ 239 that Capital project correction is gone we're back to just our capital outlay and what a capital outlay is is a small like a mini Capital project we're allowed to spend up to $100,000 every year to address something in the schools and then we get Aid on that and it's a way to kind of keep up with things in between those big capital projects um we do want to do them they're very helpful and we do get that Aid so um you know we try to keep those in the budget every single year so you'll see in this category we had
030a million up in instruction a million down in capital shifting around in here and again the drivers here are utility costs and insurance rates all right our last of our three-part budget is the administrative budget so same thing we'll talk about the big numbers here um in the superintendent curriculum development and supervision category we have an increase in there partially driven by some bosies costs also partially driven by we had some expenses that were in um pushed to the grants and now we're seeing those fall back into the general fund budget um so nothing new there just a shifting of where the funding is coming from uh in the financial services cost there is an increase in there um this is related to a transition of our financial system thank you um so when we
031transition Financial system there's a period of overlap where we're essentially paying for two softwares because our audit doesn't close out until November so I have to have both for a little bit that'll fall back off once we get through that transition period um and those are B's costs so they are aided and then again same thing in here employee benefits driving up um this other special services this is primarily um our Bose's administrative costs so those are increasing as well overall here just 175,000 100 we'll Round Up 180,000 um increasing overall but again not Personnel driven primarily those osy Services insurance rates and a little bit of those grants falling off and shifting around all right so again you know what are our drivers here we've got our utility costs our health insurance there is
032a little bit of an impact still from CPI every year it costs more to do the same thing I'm sure we're all feeling that at at home in our pockets too um so where this leaves us is about $24.9 million of Revenue put $25.4 million of expense that leaves us with a gap of about $450 so last time we spoke we were at a million we were able to get some updated information from folks adjust some of our factors um and we're able to get that down to about 450,000 now we have to present a balanced budget to the voters and we can't go out to them and say we sell the gap 450,000 we do have to figure out what's going on in that Gap but we had a really accelerated budget schedule this
033year just due the timing of our board meetings um so we do have a March 26 Workshop uh but it may be beneficial for us to add a a meeting in early April um to be able to present that balanced budget to you folks get that information out so that we're not going from having this Gap to adopting um so this is currently you know what I would propose is have a little time to talk again that legislative budget will come out April 1st if there are any changes in that it'll be helpful for us to incorporate those um and that you know again we do have to address that Gap all right any questions PR good so it's a percentage it's based on our building Aid ratio which I don't have memorized off the
034top of my head um but I believe we're sitting around 84 86% it's pretty substantial for us anything else thank you my timing on my MVPs today is a little a little bit off uh we normally uh get an opportunity to read some of our MVP awards um the first MVP award was uh that I'd like to read was for Ben pole of course Ben was just here unfortunately and and and left um but uh it reads uh personally my family and I are are very fortunate for his skills patience and passion for the sport this is our second year being a part of the wrestling community and it truly creates a solid family atmosphere for his athletes and their families there are only two girl Varsity wrestlers and we are forever grateful that Ben
035goes above and beyond the wrestling season isn't just a winter season with Ben behind the scenes he is finding and hosting practices clinics and tournaments both preseason during season and postseason he had something in place for every weekend for our varsity girls this current wrestling season with those matches came more mat time and both of our girls were seated at the sectional tournament after just two years of wrestling his JB wrestling wrestling girls were able to one of them were able to walk away with the title of first place Champion I I admire Ben's commitment to the sport and commend his work with the teens and families both on and off the mat my daughter has the utmost respect for him and considers him a great leader and Coach she truly appreciates his expectations and
036all of his guidance as he helps the team navigate tricky situations on and off the Mat B is with true MVP wasn't here get to read it though yes he did get to read it uh the second one uh that I uh picked uh to read today was um for Wick D roer um was up on our list as well starts with I owe my entire career to Mr D roer I very little Direct by the end of my senior year at Red Creek Central School Mr D took me aside and suggested I check out the technology education program at Sun sgo he made the appointment for me so I could meet with the chairperson the rest as they say is history I graduated from Red Creek in 1997 earned my teaching degree from sunnio
037in May of 2001 and started my teaching career at Long Beach Public Schools in September of 01 I know for a fact that there are many more red Creek alumni that can share similar stories he has been a tremendous asset to this community for 40 years so there's a testament that's not a current employee that's not even somebody that lives in our school district and you know this recognition program has has gotten some roots and has expanded outside of our uh local community but still ringing through some of the same stories and and success pieces that that we've been able to bring to you folks over the last several months so um just sharing again fantastic um thank you okay we're going to move on to thank you we're going to move on to uh
038the meeting minutes for uh February 5th can I have a motion please dman and a second by Mrs Kaiser there was a correction the so any other questions Corrections all in favor any opposed any exensions okay moving on uh like to approve d one through for I'll take that motion thank you Mrs Dingman can I have a second please mrss any questions all in favor any opposed any extensions the budget kind of put us right back into the com so thank you for that all right we'll move on to the consent agenda could I have a motion for something have motion for E1 through 4 except for E 31 thank you I have a second for that please I'm sorry what did she just except for e the four the table so it's 1 through
039four except for E31 right I thought weing yeah so do E1 through 4 with the exception of E2 4 through 14 and three one yes yes I second that we have a bunch of motions I think they're all the same did you did get that cuz I didn't I'll take anybody on this end but do you want to read back what you're writing just we're pulling out 2 E2 4 through 14 yes yes it is she said and then we're pulling out E3 one any other questions was Mrs ker we all know we're voting on now okay double checking triple checking okay when you're ready Mr Mrs Mrs yes yes yes thank you the oxygen on in here tonight or what's going on it's never awful warm um could I have a motion please for
040either one of those items that's left on the consent agenda please I'll make a motion for e 3 1 okay can I have a second please Mrs Allen Norman did you have absolutely I'm gonna I'd like to turn over uh SE my time on this to Mr Taylor uh and Mr Taylor ask him to speak just briefly on umor [Music] M times last as well please wish our congratulations for us any comments questions are you ready Mrs SPS yes Mrs Allan yes Mrs Kaiser yes Mrs D yes Mr Joyce yes Mrs Decker yes and Mrs M yes thank you okay can I have a motion please for the last I would like to make a motion to table e 2 4 through 14 thank you thank you Mrs Kaiser okay with no objections and that'll
041move to be tabled to the next meeting for April 23rd that's going to be the most complicated part of the evening so are you ready okay good all right moving on to new business um I have a motion for a few all we all yes one through 15 okay then motion on the floor is for F1 through 15 second by Mrs Kaiser yeah any questions okay when you ready Mr Joyce yes Mrs Kaiser yes Mrs gold yes Mrs Decker yes Mrs D yes Mrs Allan yes and Mrs M yes okay administrative reports any questions on these okay mrman did you want to talk about enrollment I flipping through hold on apologize so again um enrollment chart um attendance just just a hair for some reason I had put in my brain 93% as kind of
042a benchmark we just dropped a little bit underneath that uh February is a funky month though because we you know have a lot we have five less um instructional days in that month and uh of course sickness starts to build this time of the year uh especially with the types of weather and so forth that we've had so um not unexpected not not troubling so much in in terms of the attendance rate but but something to just uh track enrollment data again uh month to month the last two months since December we we've been basically flat uh even since November we're down a total of three students since since the November uh report uh which is not really uh anything of significant number but I think overall from September and our enrollment from September down
04320 students and you know from this time last year we're down 30 students so those are uh certainly starting to creep up into the the status of of significance numbers so um again as I talk about all the time it it's difficult not all those things fall in each of the grade levels um but you know as as we kind of hit some of these bubble grades and start to look at our Trend data of live birth rates and where are students and are they enrolling in our prek program which we'll have coming up this spring um and and tracking them into kindergarten trying to um staff our staff the school programs based on student need and enrollment sizes um is something that we need to begin taking a you know taking a hard look
044at so um and again having for me personally having a chart like this shows that linear progression of those good batter differently but it gives us uh some data points over the last year and month to month each year so um I hope it's U helpful for you folks as well to kind of see those numbers thank you make questions about that okay um not that we haven't heard from you enough Mr wer but I'm going to skip past you because I'm assuming you didn't have anything to add to recognition Okay um can I ask up board if anyone has any committee updates to share the PTA is doing a chocolate fundraiser and the Sham will be in a couple weeks Mr bra helping out so okay all right um if there's nothing else then
045I would um take a motion to move into executive for a litigation matter please Mrs F in a second Mr Joyce thank you very much